FOES OF MARIJUANA LAW DON'T SHOW COMPASSION

It seems to me that Cherrie Brady, the sponsor of the petition to
repeal Montana's compassionate medical marijuana law, wants people
with stomach cancer to puke more, people with colorectal cancer to
eat less, people with rheumatoid arthritis to suffer more frequent
liver damage. There are current medications for all of those things,
but the side effects of those same medications sometimes limit the
life expectancy of the users. That is simply a fact, supported by the
Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association and
even the manufacturers of those medications. Why would she insist
that ill people have no other choice than to take those
medications?

I am a Stage 4 colon cancer survivor. When I stopped to visit James
Knox, who is running for a legislative seat from my district where he
was collecting signatures to rescind the compassionate medical
marijuana laws in this state, I was told by Knox I had no right to
talk to the people who were stopping by about my condition. This
"gentleman" called the police to have me, a six-time grandmother,
local businesswoman and Stage 4 cancer survivor, removed. When I was
allowed to leave and went to my home, I was then confronted by
belligerent petition gatherers who knocked on my door and asked me to
sign the petition to rescind the law that has allowed me some comfort.

Please, when confronted by these petition gatherers, try to be more
compassionate than these representatives of the anti-medical-marijuana
group.

Teri Brien

Billings